Emergent Bilingual Identification and Placement

TEA Beginning-of-Year (BOY) Checklist

Beginning of Year (BOY) - Identification and Placement link

A "Home Language Survey" (HLS) is completed for all students upon school enrollment via districtwide enrollment workflows. If a student is a potential English learner, complete this document in SameGoal to start the LPAC process.

1. Home Language Survey
   • Create document.
   • Enter basic information from district HLS.
   • Optionally attach original HLS.
   • Mark document complete.
2. LPAC Initial Review
   • Create document.
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       If you need to create several at once, you may bulk create them.
   • Hold a meeting.
   • Enter enrollment and assessment information in the Results tab.
   • During LPAC meeting on Decision tab:
     • Select whether the student is an English Learner or English Proficient.
     • If the child is an English Learner, select whether they should enter the Bilingual Education Program or the English as a Second Language Program.
     • If the child is English Proficient, select English Proficient (non-EB electing into language program) if they will opt into the Dual Language program.
   • Enter meeting notes.
   • Enter name and sign.
   • Mark document complete.
3. Parent Notification of Initial Identification and Approval of Placement
   • Create document.
     • There are two form variants; one for Bilingual and one for ESL. Use the correct variant based on the placement recommendation of the LPAC Initial Review.
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       If you need to create several at once, you may bulk create them.
   • If the LPAC Initial Review has been marked complete, all language assessment results will automatically copy into this notice. If the initial review has not yet been marked complete, do so. Then, revisit this parent notice and click the Update from LPAC Initial Review button in the top left to copy information from the newly complete initial review.
   • Enter basic remaining information.
   • Share the document with parent(s).
   • Mark Date received by campus or No parent response in form bottom right.
   • Mark document complete.
     • If the parent agrees with the recommended placement, no further documentation is needed until the annual review at the end of the year.
     • If the parent does not agree with placement, parent denial must be confirmed.